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Camp (Not Sontag's), Part 1
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Length:
57 minutes
Released:
Jul 1, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Ellie and Carrie introduce their own formative experience at an all-girls' sleep-away camp in Maine by discussing the cultural history of camp and its role in the American imagination. Works cited include "'The Ego Ideal of the Good Camper' and the Nature of Summer Camp" by Michael B. Smith (2006) and Abigail Ayres Van Slyck's "A Manufactured Wilderness: Summer Camps and the Shaping of American Youth, 1890-1960" (2006).
Released:
Jul 1, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
Titles in the series (26)
Proximity to Fame & Fame by Proxy (Part 2): Ellie and Carrie discuss the darker side to matrilineal fame, including some of Mommy's cancellations. Also explored are Carrie's desire for fame in her own right versus Ellie's need for privacy, and how an extended period of isolation and an altercation with a neighbor in East Hampton prompted Carrie's quest for Internet celebrity. Other topics include wanting to "be good," building resiliency skills at the Child Mind Institute, mosaic wart clusters, and the fame revenge fantasy at the core of Taylor Swift’s 2010 hit “Mean.” Works cited are A. Giddens’ “Modernity and Self-Identity in the Late Modern Age," Christopher Lasch’s “culture of narcissism,” and Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham’s “metalanguage of race.” by All Each Other Has